What is your "Acoustic Repertoire"?

EricTheWeary

1952 Vincent came up on my iPod earlier. It is such an amazing song. Even as a strum along it would sound good.

If anyone is wondering what to buy me for my birthday a ticket to an RT guitar camp would be good...

dafuzz

The only thing that springs to mind that hasn't already been mentioned is Blackbird - Beatles.

Ianpdq

Teetonetal said:

Off the top of my head all these were in the set of my last acoustic duo...

Time like these - Foo Fighters
The Boxer - Simon and Garkunkel
Never Going back again - Fleetwood Mac
Angie - Rolling stones
Oliver's Army - Elvis Costello
Come Up and See Me - Steve Harley and the Cockney Rebel
Big Sur - RHCP
I used to love her - Rolling Stones
I feel fine - the Beatles
Under the bridge - RHCP
Living on a prayer - Bon jovi (they do a really nice acoustic version)
Rhiannon - Fleetwood Mac
Needle and the Damage Done - Niel Young
Knocking on Heaven's Door - Bob Dylan
Patience - G&R
Californication - RHCP
Mrs Robinson - Simon and Garfunkel
Spider and the Fly - Rolling Stones
Got me wrong - Alice in chains
Love for sale - Bon Jovi
More than words - Extreme
People should smile more - Newton Faulkner
Everybody hurts - REM
Back to the old house - The smiths
There she goes - The Las
Wonderwall - Oasis
Don't look back in Anger - Oasis
Losing my religon - REM
When love and hate collide - Def Leppard
Father and Son - Cat Stevens
Proud Mary - Steeler's Wheel
Cat's in the cradle - Ugly kid Joe
Nothing else matters - Metallica

As previous poster I would also highly recommend 1952 Vincent Black Lightning  - Richard Thompson, such a tune!

I used to love her - Rolling Stones I think it's called It's all over now from the High Tide Green Grass Album

noisepolluter

thomasross20 said:

Do you guys sing along as well as play, or is it mainly just the guitar playing?
Do you have videos/recordings?

I sing along so it takes some of the focus off my playing.

And I play so that it takes some of the focus off my singing. 

Lead work is strictly limited to the odd single-note run between chords - more often than not in the wrong scale.

dafuzz

Just remembered I spent weeks learning Love Of My Life by Queen on guitar after seeing Extreme do it at the Freddie Mercury tribute thing (and it was tabbed in GT a million years ago). If only I could sing the fucker. That and Hallelujah as performed by Jeff Buckley.

dafuzz

Oh PS: Used To Love Her is a GnR song and a belter!

AuldReekie

Not being a singer, my solo set is fingerpicked and using a variety of tunings (CGCGCD/DADGAD/DAAEAE) and as well as my own compositions, includes the following: - Si Beg, Si Mhor (trad) The Dark Island Kes Jig (trad) Home is where the heart is (Wolfstone) After the Goldrush Ramni Ceilidh (Gordon Duncan) Irene Meldrums welcome to Bon Accord (trad) Ghost Town/Song for Eva (Bill Frissell) Hector the Hero (Neil Gow) Going home (Local Hero theme tune) Ashokan Farewell The Seagull (trad) Over the Hillside/Saturday Night/Lets go out tonight (The Blue Nile) A few Irish jigs/reels Currently trying to put together an acoustic version on (the brilliant) Bill Nelson's "Beyond these clouds, the sweetest Dreams"

richardhomer

AuldReekie;224430" said:

Over the Hillside/Saturday Night/Lets go out tonight (The Blue Nile)

'Wow' duly awarded! Three of my favourite songs, off one of my favourite albums!

thomasross20

MonkeyBone - nice one with Wicked Game! Love it when people post "live action" videos lol... Regarding singing, did you get lessons?
Teenage Dirtbag was also awesome lol..
Jon - nice! Are you still doing these open mic nights a lot? What guitar is that?

digitalkettle

richardhomer said:

AuldReekie;224430" said:

Over the Hillside/Saturday Night/Lets go out tonight (The Blue Nile)

'Wow' duly awarded! Three of my favourite songs, off one of my favourite albums!

+1

richardhomer

digitalkettle;224483" said:

+1

And a 'Wow' for you also Mr Kettle for being a fellow Blue Nile fan....

viz

This is my fave acoustic number to play, proving yet again that take that are fab. I just haven't managed to integrate the solo with the rhythm yet.

Monkeybone

thomasross20 said:

MonkeyBone - nice one with Wicked Game! Love it when people post "live action" videos lol... Regarding singing, did you get lessons?
Teenage Dirtbag was also awesome lol..
Jon - nice! Are you still doing these open mic nights a lot? What guitar is that?

Nope, no lessons had. Teenage Dirtbag was kind of a necessity at the open mic night, mainly because I had a complete head fog on and couldn't rememeber what else I could play! I also played it at my solo gig purely for an upbeat song to play.

joneve

thomasross20 said:

MonkeyBone - nice one with Wicked Game! Love it when people post "live action" videos lol... Regarding singing, did you get lessons?
Teenage Dirtbag was also awesome lol..
Jon - nice! Are you still doing these open mic nights a lot? What guitar is that?

Unfortunately not mate. Would like to get back into doing some if I can. That's my Taylor Big Baby, which I'm now selling because I have the GS Mini and can't afford to keep both  

thomasross20

So you prefer the GS Mini, huh?
I need to get OUT there and do what you guys are doing. Started a band but it looks like it's already falling apart - why are musicians so flaky!?

Monkeybone, one of the things I find hardest is getting the timing right between vocals and what's happening on guitar - just practice, I guess!

viz - I've never seen that video - actually pretty cool!!

ESBlonde

50 Ways to leave your lover - Paul Simon
Angie - Rolling Stones
Tequila Sunrise - Eagles
For You Blue - Beatles
Girl - Beatles
And I love Her - Beatles
Across the Universe - Beatles
Till there was you - (Beatles version)
If Love was a train - Michelle Shocked
More than Words - Extreem
Dance with me - Orleans
Better be home soon - Crowded house
Fall at your feet - Crowded house
Breaking us in two - Joe Jackson
Party Girl - U2
Nothing Ever happens - Del Amitri
All Cried Out - Alison Moyet
Stuck in the middle - Steelers wheel
One horse town - Rembrandts

RocknRollDave

dafuzz said:

Oh PS: Used To Love Her is a GnR song and a belter!

When he said Rolling Stones, he may have meant It's All Over Now - lyric being: "I used to love her...but it's all over now".

RocknRollDave

Two songs I've been asked to learn for weddings this year that we ended up not playing (at their request, I should add...we didn't just NOT play them!)

Lianne La Havas - Age.   LOVELY jazzy guitar on this, played by La Havas herself. (You might want to change the lyrics/ gender ...unless you're into older men, in which case you won't need to!)

and

Jamiroquai - You Give Me Something. Yes, I know it's NOT an acoustic tune, and it's very production heavy, but researching it on YouTube for arrangement ideas, I found some lovely acoustic/ almost bossa nova versions, and it lends itself nicely to acoustic. Chords Dmaj7 - Bm7 - Gmaj7 - Bm7...that's all there is to it, but it sounds quite impressive.
Good luck fitting all those words in, mind...

thomasross20

Again - to those with these massive song lists - do you sing them , too... at open mic nights?
More Than Words - the main voice part for that is pretty tricky.. (for a guy to sing!)

Teetonetal

thomasross20 said:

Again - to those with these massive song lists - do you sing them , too... at open mic nights?
More Than Words - the main voice part for that is pretty tricky.. (for a guy to sing!)

Yup, play and sing - more then words undergoes a detuneing by a whole step for me to sing it. I played in a duo where we both played and sung, trying to get a full as sound as possible.